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Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, Obie Knox travels to 17th-century Moldavia for Mario Bava’s Black Sunday (1960), a gorgeous Gothic nightmare that begins with one of the more memorable executions in horror history. Barbara Steele stars as Princess Asa Vajda, a witch condemned to death by her own brother and fitted with a particularly unpleasant spiked mask before promising revenge on his descendants. Two centuries later, an unfortunate encounter with her tomb sets ...
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Send us Fan Mail James Whale’s Frankenstein didn’t invent the mad scientist, the laboratory full of questionable equipment, or the idea of creating life where nature probably intended otherwise, but it brought them together so perfectly that horror movies have been borrowing from it ever since. Released by Universal in 1931, Frankenstein stars Colin Clive as Henry Frankenstein, a young scientist determined to discover the secret of life, and Boris Karloff in the role that transformed both his...
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, Obie Knox digs into 1941’s The Wolf Man, one of Universal’s defining monster movies and one of the most influential werewolf films ever made. After an encounter with a mysterious wolf leaves Larry wounded and Bela the fortune teller dead, Larry begins to fear that the old legends are true and that he has become a werewolf. We look at Lon Chaney Jr.’s sympathetic performance as the doomed Larry Talbot, Claude Rains as his father Sir ...
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, we venture into the Amazon to revisit Universal's 1954 classic, Creature from the Black Lagoon. After exploring the fascinating history behind the creation of the Gill-man—including Milicent Patrick's long-overlooked contribution to the creature's iconic design—we dive into the film itself, following an expedition that discovers far more than a fossilized claw. As scientists push deeper into the mysterious Black Lagoon in search of ...
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, Obie Knox journeys back to 1932 to explore one of the films that helped define classic horror: The Mummy. Long before shambling bandaged monsters became Halloween staples, Universal introduced audiences to a far more unsettling vision of the undead—an ancient Egyptian priest whose greatest weapon isn't brute strength, but patience. The story begins when an archaeological expedition uncovers the tomb of Imhotep, an ancient priest bur...
Send us Fan Mail A college student looking for material on witchcraft probably shouldn't begin by checking into an isolated New England town permanently buried under fog, but The City of the Dead has other plans. In this episode of The Introverted Obelisk, Obie Knox heads to Whitewood, Massachusetts, where Nan Barlow's innocent research trip leads her straight into a town with a very long memory and an extremely active interest in the occult. We'll take a look at this wonderfully atmospheric ...